Pete

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Silent Night Cora clutched the scissors as she stared at herself in the full-length mirror hanging from her bedroom closet. Something was different this morning, but what? She looked around her room and then back to herself again as thoughts filled her head. Same sleep-filled eyes that you somehow can’t […]

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen “Father! Oh, Father! May we have a bed-time story?” said Charles as he sat upon his bed. His older, Bob, and younger brother, Alfred, rushed into the bedroom and joined the entreaty. “Oh please! Our chores are complete and we have washed and prepared for […]

Jingle Bell Rick A warm sensation washed over the homeless man huddled in the doorway of an abandoned building and drew him to consciousness. Other homeless people knew him simply as Rick. At this time of year, however, they’d call him Jingle Bell Rick. Years before, he learned that wearing […]